NEAR EAST ARMY
STRENGTH OF ALLIED FORCES ESTIMATED BY RUSSIANS AT 400,000. “COLOSSAL ARMED CAMP.” By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MOSCOW, January 23. The Red Army newspaper “Red Star” estimates the French forces in Syria and Lebanon at 300,000 and the British in Egypt and Palestine at 100,000. Poles. Czechs, White Russians, Indians and Negroes are included in these forces. The coastal belt from Aleppo to Damascus, it states, is a colossal armed camp intend to intimidate Britain’s and France’s opponents in the Balkans and spike Italy's territorial ambitions in the Near East.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1940, Page 6
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